IRVING, Texas, JULY 19, 2023 – The American Athletic Conference has named the University of South Florida's Dulcy Fankam Mendjiadeu as the dual winner of 2022-23 Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as announced by the league of Wednesday. Additionally, South Florida's Sam Hines Jr. was tabbed the Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, while Track and Field's Johann Jeremiah was awarded the Commissioner's Postgraduate Leadership award.
 
In the spring of 2022, Dulcy earned her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and will graduate this fall with a Master's degree in Finance. This past season the Nkongsamba, Cameroon native garnered AAC All-Academic team honors and nabbed a CSC Academic All-District nod.
 
Continuing to rake in the honors, Fankam Mendijadeu was selected as the 2022-23 AAC Women's Basketball Co-Player of the Year, named First-Team All-Conference, while earning WBCA All-American Honorable Mention and All-Region III honors.
 
Fankam Mendijadeu earned four AAC Player of the Week honors in 2022-23 while averaging 16.5 points and 12.3 rebounds per game and starting all 34 games. She led the AAC and ranked 16th nationally with a 58.6 field-goal percentage. She also led the AAC with a 12.3 rebound average (fifth in the nation) while ranking third in the conference in scoring (16.5 ppg). The forward ranked fourth in the nation with 24 double-doubles on the year. She scored in double-figures in 20 games (fourth in the nation), had nine 20-plus point contests, and grabbed double-digit rebounds 26 times.
 
The former Bull continues to shine on the national stage, as she was selected as the 21^st overall pick by the Seattle Storm in the 2023 WNBA Draft.

Hines Jr. (men's basketball) boasts a cumulative GPA of 3.82 and is majoring in communications at the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications (minor in Entrepreneurship). The Marietta, Ga. native was named to the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team and earned AAC All-Academic Team honors for the 2021-2022 academic year, along with honor roll recognition across four straight semesters of enrollment at USF (Fall 21, Spring 22, Fall 22 and Spring 23).
 
The junior was one of three Bulls to play in all 32 games during the 2022-23 season (his 31 starts ranked second on the team). He posted his second career double-double (first at USF) against Wichita State (Jan. 8^th) with 11 points and 10 boards. Last season, the forward ranked second on the team in rebound average (5.5 rpg). He is the only player on the active roster to play in all 63 games across the past two seasons, and during that time Hines improved his scoring average from 3.5 ppg (2021-22) to 6.8 points per contest (2022-23).
 
Johann Jeremiah (track and field) has earned the commissioner's postgraduate leadership award, which is chosen by the AAC's faculty athletics representatives.
 
Jeremiah becomes the first South Florida student-athlete to earn a Commissioner's Postgraduate Leadership Award. A native of St. George's, Grenada, Jeremiah was chosen as the Bulls' Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2022-23 academic year after he set program records in both the indoor (17.40 meters) and outdoor (17.02 meters) shot put.
 
Jeremiah graduated from South Florida with a 3.73 grade-point average as a biomedical health sciences major. He had five semesters in which he attained a 4.00 GPA and is a two-time American Athletic Conference All-Academic selection. Jeremiah plans to pursue a graduate degree in health care administration.
 
The Commissioner's Postgraduate Leadership Award is presented annually to one male and one female student-athlete from an American Athletic Conference-sponsored sport who have been admitted to a degree-granting or professional program for the following year and who have demonstrated leadership through excellence in academic credentials, athletic performance and depth of commitment to service within the institution or the community.
 
Jeremiah will receive a $5,000 scholarship, which may be applied to postgraduate study.
 
 About USF Athletics
USF Athletics currently sponsors 19 varsity men's and women's teams that compete in 11 different sports, 18 at the NCAA Division I level in the American Athletic Conference, which will expand to 21 teams with the recently announced additions of women's lacrosse (2024-25) and women's beach volleyball (2025-26). The Bulls' athletic program began in 1965 and will be in its 58th season in 2023-24. Nearly 450 student-athletes train and compete in the athletic district located on the east end of the campus in Tampa, Fla. USF garnered two national championships in 2022-23 as Romaine Beckford for NCAA indoor and outdoor high jump titles. The Bulls have claimed 26 American Athletic Conference team titles since joining the conference in 2013 and own 140 conference titles claimed in 15 sports in department history, led by 20 each for men's tennis and men's soccer. USF has claimed 74 men's conference championships and 64 women's titles, led by 14 in women's tennis and 12 in volleyball. The Bulls have posted a combined annual grade-point average over 3.0 for more than eight straight years and are in the midst of a program record of 17 straight semesters with a combined GPA over 3.0 as of the spring of 2023. USF has had over 600 student-athletes earn their degree since 2016-17.

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